A six-year-old girl developed severe brain damage within hours of being admitted to the emergency department at Galway University Hospital suffering from low blood sugar, an inquest has heard.

Dhara Kivlehan was given a photograph of her newborn baby Dior just before she was transferred from Sligo Regional Hospital to Belfast four days before her death, an inquest heard yesterday.

A six-year-old girl was referred to hospital a number of times over a five-year period with vomiting and dehydration but no underlying cause had been established when she died, an inquest heard.

Lawyers for Michael Kivlehan told the coroner’s court that "if there’s an attempt to truncate the inquest or reduce it to a level that does not meet these requirements, the Kivlehans will be unhappy and take their unhappiness elsewhere".

The heartbroken family of an Indian woman who died eight days after she became seriously ill at Sligo General Hospital at the time of the birth of her first baby yesterday vowed to continue their legal battle to have an inquest.

The family of an Indian woman who died a week after giving birth to her first child has been awarded almost one million euro in damages from health chiefs.

A US-based provider of internet services is to transfer the domain name and the registration of www.rate-your-solicitor.com to a solicitor who claimed he was defamed on the website.

A High Court judge has called on the Government to introduce legislation making it a criminal offence to post “patently untrue” allegations against any person on the internet.

A solicitor has brought a defamation action over comments posted about him on the website 'rateyoursolicitor.com'

THE husband of a woman who died following an elective hysterectomy at a private hospital said after an inquest at which a verdict of medical misadventure was recorded that they had “got justice” for his wife.

A NURSE has told an inquest into the death of a woman following an elective hysterectomy at a private Dublin hospital that she was “very sick” when she was transferred to the facility’s high dependency unit and the nurse “knew something serious was wrong”, an inquest has heard.

A 14-YEAR-OLD quadriplegic with cerebral palsy has been awarded €4.5 million in a settlement against the Health Service Executive (HSE).

THE family of a six-year-old girl who died in a house fire allegedly caused by an electrical fault settled their action against Sligo Borough Council in the High Court yesterday for a total of €115,000. The award was secured without admission of liability.

FINE GAEL MEP Jim Higgins and former Fine Gael Minister for Agriculture Ivan Yates have secured €100,000 each, plus their legal costs and an apology, in settlement of their libel action over two articles in the Sunday Independent newspaper.

The work of the Morris Tribunal will not be affected by the theft of possible evidence from a key garda witness, it emerged tonight.